The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-06
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10 bOSIOu LOT u new COURT HDuSS
! Mrs B. f. DAVIS, of Harrison, Kan, lady 3;
years old, had all her teeth extracted three
| months ago, and now nature is furnishing her
with a third set.
| Two anchors have been picked up off Chat
| ham, Mass which, it is thought, may have
| belo lged to a Dutch inan-ot-Nar wrecked one
hundred years ago.
| The fashionable Swiss hotels now have Ameri-
can bars. presided over by handsome Swiss
girls in native dress This is said TO account for
tn Withdrawal Of the English patronage.
A MEDFoRD IN. j.. MOTHER prevented the
elopement of her daughter the other night by
locking up all her wearing apparel. 4 girls love
OF dress often stands in the way of her success
| in life.
The temperance women have prevailed upon
the managers of the New York State fair, to be
held i'll September, to allow no sale of intoXicat-
ing liquors on the grounds and to permit tenn
perance addresses to be made by both men and
women.
An English statesman asserts that not only do
| married men live longer than bachelors, but that
the latter are more criminal He saysthat there
are thirty criminals among every 900 bachelors,
While among married men the ratio is only
eighteen.
A MAN was riding on the footboard of switch
| engine near Arkansas City when a COW came
I
the engine, and before the rider could change
his position his limbs were crushed between the
engine and the COW. 49,.
TIE tower which is being erected by the Rus
SLAMS on the highest point of the Mount of
Olives is already several stories high, but one
more is to be added. The object is to make it
sea may be seen from the top.
THERE is a remarkable body of gold ore in
is in n oil fha
$50 20 800 feet wide, practically nexhaustible in
BODY. IL IS rich quartz. Senator Jones' of
Nevada, has fifth interest in the mine. Tired
well, the man who discovered it, owns another
fifth.
The Philadelphia papers record an evidence
of the lronclad qualities of the mule. One of
these animals there fell headlong into a well
forty feet deep yesterday, and stood on his head
at the bottom until he was drawn, I'D by means
of derrick, with only few scratches to tell
the tale He was at once put to work again
Two unknown men attempted to enter the
house of Mrs John Bolts of Chadron, Neb.. and
when she told them to go away. one pulled a
revolver. Thereupon Mrs Bolts pulled her
revolver and fired first, putting bullet through
the abdomen of one and into the thigh of the
other intruder. One wound was fatal, the
other uncertain.
\ NEW incaudescent electric lamp has, it is
said. been devised by the electrician of the
Julien Power Storage Company at Brussels.
The tilament is made of a new material, and
gives gives discharge of electricity in the hydrogen
filled bulb which produces an aureele of light.
1t is claimed that the Illuminating power is one
third greater than in the Edison lamp for the
same expenditure of energy.
A VIRGINIA GENTLEMAN relates that while fish
ing for clubs he saw terrapin crawl in clubs
Led, where the female had deposited her spawn
when the male club sighted the Intruder
ellRht a ha slad ,.Ytfa l1,,,.t -;,y
feet and threw him (the terrapin almost twenty
feet clear of the water. The fact is vouched for
by several gentlemen of repute who witnessed
the summary bouncing of the terrapin.
ANOTHER curious phenomenon in the shape of
plague of ants is reported from Nancy The
insects were immense in size, some having
wings, but the Majority wingless. They fell in
Sucn large numbers that the inhabitants thought
they were having repetition of one of the
plaques OF Egypt. 1t is supposed that the rain
or insects was the fortrunner of the violent
storm which swept over Nancy on the i.ext day
A PHENOMENAL DOG has been enjoying his va
cation at Oneida Lake this summer The AMI
NAL seems to have All abnormal appetite for
tish, and whenever he wants any he is in the
habit of catching them himself. He walks out
INTO the lake and after. watching the water for
some time, he makes aick plunge and catches
a smallsized fish in his mouth This he devours
and repeats the operation till his appetite is
satisfied. .t--r yf"t
AN army officer now in Chicago asked the
other day: do you know where the exact
geographical centre of the United States is.
Never thought anything about it. probably.
Well, it is marked by a grave--that of Mai
Ogden, of the United States army, who died at
Fort Riley, in Kansas, in 1855, during the cholera
epidemic that year. Maj. Ogden's remains were
afterwards removed to Fort LeavenWortb and
buried in the National Cemetery there but his
monument still stands on knoll a little TO the
northeast of the post-Fort RHey-and it lifts
its head toward the clouds in the exact geo
graphical centre of the United States This
isn't conceit; its fact, though probably of
the hundreds of men now at the fort not one in
hundred ever stops TO think about it, Fort
Riley is a few miles east of Junction City, Kan.
and Is one of the most important cavalry posts
in the country"
OF the ute campaign" in Colorado Denver
letter says: ''The expenses will be very large.
She men are mounted on horses which are al
most all hired at the stables at from So day
upward. great many will die before thew
reach home. and for these the State will have To
pay about twice their value. Provisions have
been transported to Meeker and the 'front.' for
which enormous prices have heen paid The
men are all to be paid as well as the bills for
transportation. A good share of this expense
will come on Garfield county which has a very
small population and can i'll afford it. 1t has
been good thing for the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad. on which is Glenwood Springs the
nearest station TO DIeeker. eighty miles distant
Meeker has been thoroughly garriSoned by
militia, most of whom will go home without
having seen an Indian. 1t is estimated that the
expense to the state of Colorado will be flon
S150,OOO to 500 900. 1t will probably finish Gov
Adams POLITICAL"
A HORSE with goggles was one of the attrac-
tions of the Clinton Square market place in Bos
ton, Saturday afternoon. The Manli,Is farmer
who owned him said be discovered recently that
the animal was very near-sighted. and an oculist
took the necessary Measurements. and sending
to New York. had a pair of coneave spectacles
made expressly for Dobbin. When the farmer
tried them for the first time the horse appeared
TO be startled, but recovering from his surprise
manifested every symptom Of pleasure They
are made so as to he firmly fastened in the head.
stall, and cannot be worn without that piece of
harness. when | turn him out to pasture
said the farmer, The feels uneasy and uncom
Portable without his goggles. and last Sunday he
hung around the barn and whnned so plaintive
like that took out the bit and put the headstall
and goggles on him, and he was so glad that he
rubbed my shoulder with his nose Then he
kicked up his heels and danced down TO the pas
ture. You ought to have seen him hate to
let him wear specs all the time, though, for fear
he will break them
AT the annual meeting of the chronological
Society of Japan on May %, Prof s. Sekiya ex
hibited an interesting model of his own design.
showing the motion of the ground at the time of
IN earthquake. The actual motion was magni-
fled fifty times. AZ the same meeting Prof Milne
read paper on the effects produced by earth
quakes upon the lower animals. Animals often
show signs of alarm. not only while an earth
nm n haF ..e.1,.. i